I’ve recently started weaning myself off of Flashdevelop and onto FDT, mainly because it’s cross platform but also because it means I can use the same IDE for coding and compiling Actionscript and Java.

The other clinching factor was it’s plugins, notably Subversive for SVN browsing and team collaboration goodness.

This evening though, I tried checking out a Google code project and got the following error: Read : Subversive & Google Code »

Posted on 06 Feb 2009
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Bitmap Alpha Channel Masking using CopyPixels

Original image by Edwin Tofslie

I was having a few gradient alpha mask disabilities today and thought I should share my misery and consequential solution with anyone who might run into the same problems! Read : Masking Transparent Bitmaps »

Posted on 10 Dec 2008
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I have just been checking out Asual’s SWFAddress.

If you haven’t come across it yet, SWF Address is a tool for deep linking in Flash. It is a JavaScript based code which will set hash (anchor) link path from your Flash content. Not only does this mean users can now use their back buttons, but it also means permalinks can be created to content deep inside the Flash movie. For example http://www.yoursite.com/#/projects/project-name/ Read : SWF Address »

Posted on 18 Jul 2007
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